In election years past, we've come to associate the term "rigged" with Republican candidates such as Donald Trump, who has established a pattern of attributing losses to this, that and the other, as the word is conveniently nebulous. But Democrats can lean on that crutch too.
In a recent analysis from The Washington Post, they illustrate this using Rep. Katie Porter (D-Calif.) as an example. After losing her bid for the U.S. Senate in Tuesday’s primary elections — coming in third (by a lot) behind Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) and former baseball star Steve Garvey (R) — she issued a statement to X (formerly Twitter) singing a familiar tune:
